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Search iTunes for podcast by title

I'd like to find the specific podcast episode titled "#1: The Single White Guy Focus Group." According to the iTunes search API, I believe I should be able to find it with the following:

https://itunes.apple.com/search?term=%231:+The+Single+Straight+Guy+Focus+Group&entity=podcast&attribute=keywordsTerm

But that returns an empty JSON. I also tried

https://itunes.apple.com/search?term=The+Single+Straight+Guy+Focus+Group&entity=podcast

... and ...

https://itunes.apple.com/search?term=The+Single+Straight+Guy+Focus+Group

... but I always get the same result.

{
 "resultCount":0,
 "results": []
}

I'm baffled. I know the episode is in there - here it is.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1-single-straight-guy-focus/id775053292?i=1000375469754&mt=2

(posting full url so deliberately, so you can see that indeed there is a url which does point to that specific episode)

So why can't I find it?

EDIT: Note that I am doing this in an Obj-C iOS app, in case that is relevant.

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Max von Hippel Avatar asked Jan 17 '17 01:01

Max von Hippel


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1 Answers

After a TON of hair-pulling, I've found that there is an undocumented entity (podcastEpisode) that does what we all want.

So, on the off-chance the original poster is still at this after 3 years (or more likely other frustrated folks like myself browsing) - try this (using the original example):

https://itunes.apple.com/search?term=The+Single+Straight+Guy+Focus+Group&entity=podcastEpisode
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ntschier Avatar answered Oct 03 '22 21:10

ntschier